A person uses a smartphone in Chicago, Sept. 16, 2017. Most Democrats and Republicans agree that the federal government should better regulate the biggest technology companies, particularly social media platforms.…
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Study Using AI Reveals Secondary Bacterial Pneumonia, Not Cytokine Storm, Found as Key Factor in COVID-19 Fatalities
Summary: A recent study found that secondary bacterial pneumonia, rather than the much-discussed “cytokine storm,” is a significant factor in COVID-19-related fatalities. Almost half of the patients who required mechanical…
Cannabis Use Disorder Linked to Increased Schizophrenia Risk in Males
Summary: Young men who suffer from cannabis use disorder are more likely to develop schizophrenia, according to a new study. The study analyzed health records data of over 6 million…
Germany to ease solar rules as new installations surge
Robert Habeck, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, speaks at the conference of the Green parliamentary group “Green Warmth for All” – Climate-Fair, Social, Environmentally Compatible, at the…
Tackling the ethical dilemma of responsibility in large language models
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at the University of Oxford, in collaboration with international experts, have published a new study in Nature Machine Intelligence addressing the complex ethical issues surrounding…
Researchers say AI emergent abilities are just a ‘mirage’
Datasets used to train AI algorithms may underrepresent older people. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain There seems to be no end to predictions of storm clouds when computers eventually decide to…
Researchers evaluate energy conservation and carbon reduction potential for biomass energy conversion
Fig. 1. Schematic diagram of biomass energy conservation and carbon reduction with multiple-sources and multiple-approach biomass use. Credit: Xi Fengming Biomass energy is a form of solar energy stored in…
Nourishing the Mind: Nutritional Interventions to Slow Alzheimer’s Disease
Summary: A new systematic review examined nutritional interventions for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The review identified 38 studies, including randomized clinical trials, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses. The findings indicate that nutritional…
